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(clapping.) >> housing everybody doing happy asian pacific american heritage month coming up well, welcome everybody to city hall and want to say thank you for helping us kickoff the next month of great celebrations we have worked out with our asian pacific american heritage month celebration committee a celebration of great milestones have been remind we have a lot of milestones coming up whether that is this year's forgetting celebration of soulcy city 50 years with the asian art museum aj is here or about next year but 60 years of our sister

city yes and, of course, one hundred and 10 years with our japantown so a lot of milestones to celebrate (clapping.) i don't know if you knew this i celebrated with the burmese just beginning to this about and understand they're new democracy they're trying for we'll have a lot of interest so thank you for every single board of supervisors commissioner peskin supervisor wiener pr katie tang and supervisor yee and supervisor mar am i missing anyone yeah chair hennessy welcome and more importantly to you and sponsors of many different events that goes on this for the entire month i know a lot of you are just representing a whole

bunch of groups. >> by the way, i started meg with sf and that is a whole lot of groups that want to do business outside of chieb but all the asian countries and want to make sure our city is well-represented in that endeavor 0 on behalf of the city and certainly in joint with our board of supervisors i want to say grksz let's kickoff this we say a great women's submit on june 21st i hope you join us speaking will strong women i want to introduce someone that is cooperating our heritage and has led the effort for the stamps made and on an annual basis and now the section generation if you will, and started all with the great

leadership or ms. chang come on up. >> thank you, mayor ed lee thank you, everybody for coming to our kickoff press conference as also very, very excited as we've been anticipating all the volunteers working on that nor a half year it is unbelievable the month of may is finally around the corner so i understand that our city officials have a very, very busy schedule i want to invite up commissioner mondejar and supervisor tang because they have rules committee meeting to rush to. >> i want to take a second we're talking about celebrating community milestones we have an actual a significant milestone on the board of supervisors this year in a celebration of asian pacific american heritage month and i'll let commissioner mondejar talk about that.

>> (clapping.) you'll get to see katie and me run to the rules committee in a couple of minutes for this historic asian pacific american heritage month this year i want to say the sister cities the mayor talked to the one hundred and 10 anniversary of japantown and other history of our art and cultural sharing to the world with the 50 asian art museum we are proud of i want to say that apa means is pride about not just being chinese and chinese-american but ailing and pam's with a strong and inclusive asian pacific islander community that here are supports not only the larger groups like chinese and japan and the filipinos but under into custody groups from the south asian to the asian pacific

islanders it is about annuity and equity as we celebrate the accomplishments every year 72 hours about pride in any heritage and my community struggled for equality and but not just about power from mayor ed lee to us on the board of supervisors to the school board or college board all the commissioners that are great but power from the bottom up with so many cobras those utilizing the arts to imperative and educate people but power that e mexicans from the top down by the bottom-up and everything in between from mayor ed lee inclusive efforts to raise everyone's in the city to we can be proud and everybody can share in the great benefits of this city but those with the least that are rising with everyone and has a voice and power as

well so this asian pacific islanders heritage month thank you for everyone that put everything work into that i'm proud and amazed by the accomplishment they've done over the years thank you very much (clapping.) >> okay thank you so much and thank you for being here shout out to claude i think for doing everything we can to help us celebrate in the months of may coming up it is so easy for us to forget how far we've come we at a a take a pause it understand where we came from how far we've come and further to go i think this is so easy to take for grand you know in many other places we may not be able to celebrate we do it no not

just asian pacific american heritage month but our asian street fair and parades the largest in the entire country through our asian art museum we bring exhibit and so many ways we celebrate our heritage i'm appreciative we do this in san francisco to thank you for celebrating and i wish you a wonderful rest of the press conference thank you. >> (clapping.) and claudine, thank you remind me before we run the board of supervisors has adopted apa heritage month i'm trying to remember we passed a resolution to acknowledge in the first tuesday of every month we'll be honoring at the board of supervisors the heritage for the future every tuesday first tuesday of may as we we gather

on monday 40's for the apa celebration we'll be doing that in the first month of may. >> thank you for helping us celebrate (clapping.) >> so i know there are a number of other city officials but maybe wee bit we'll hear if some of the apa so i don't know if everyone has gotten our press package on the table back there if you haven't maybe you can pickup one on your way out to the significant milestones we're celebrating this year we have 3 great organizations we're celebrating the 40 anniversary of the san francisco soul sister committee and the 50 of the asian art museum and the windshield and 10 and amazing the volunteers felt work on this

anniversary i want to invite up the representatives to come up with one minute so let's start with chair the san francisco soul sister committee (clapping.) >> good morning, everybody. you know getting involved with that sister sir a an honor a place i grew up in soul contra and my place this is a great opportunity thank you (clapping.) >> great example of a brief remark (laughter) but 40 years of history i'm sure you can talk about this for 40 hours we want to invite our awesome director of the museum jay sue.

>> thank you, thank you good morning, everyone first thank you, mayor ed lee and thank you to our supervisors and apa heritage committee this wonderful recognize we are honored to be here and celebrating such good company so congratulations to us and in addition to celebrating our 50 anniversary next year will be the citizen annual we'll have so we're looking forward it is fitting that a golden gate bridge is our city's most i cover landmark all servicing as bridges as connectors we bridge the past with today we also bridge the coaches connecting asian art with our lives the lives of our community

we know that culture awareness leads to appreciation culture appreciation needs leads to understanding and understand leads to tolerance area tolerance leads to empathy so you it out we were only about art we're everywhere important informing who those who have doors we are grateful for your support and all of you who are future members that donors supported by the volunteers we're looking forward to welcoming you to our family and you can follow me after the press conference across the street for the asian art museum that is an honor to serve san francisco and all around the world for the asian art museum is for all we're eagerly looking forward to our next 50 years

thank you very much. (clapping.) >> >> representing the japantown one and 10 anniversary community commissioner teresa (clapping.) >> good morning, everyone on behalf of the planning committee of one and anniversary japantown in the western edition i'm privileged to represent them i want to thank claudia and mayor ed lee and all of you for attending we're thrilled to be a recipient of the 2016 heritage award want to congratulate the asian arts museum and our sister committee the one and tenth anniversary is a contribute to our generation and the second generation japanese in america we can enjoy

the celebration due to their perseverance and trumpet and continue to be only one of 3 remaining japantowns in the united states but look forward to accepting the award on monday and the entire community would like to thank the apa celebration committee for recognizing the one and tenth anniversary in the western edition japantown has been longer than than a one and 10 years but we're it celebrating in the western edition thank you. >> i'm so lucky me and my amazing a amazing communicated of volunteers if you have a chance and not received it again take the press passage everyone's name as a volunteer of the asian pacific american heritage month are here at the

back and i'm sure you know each other and - at this time i would like the two co-chairs to join me they're two of the 3 celebration co-chairs this year i understand that rich is a co-chair but unfortunately can't be here so thank you moving on i see i'd like to invite some of the other city officials that haven't had a chance to greet supervisor wiener. >> carmen chu assessor-recorder a sheryl hennessy we call thank you, thank you

good morning, everybody. i'm going to pleased to be here and good to see is. >> we kickoff our most we've seen and know the during this trial know you know you wanted to thank claudine but i wish i knew the milestone you're reaching on the number of efforts out of cooperated other city hall time after time chaud den steps up to get us together and so today, i want to thank claudine for all the work and really to encourage everybody as you are here to make sure you're letting our friends and families know about the asian pacific american heritage month let them know about the activities and fun things and help us to celebrate the great diversity with that, congratulations claudine for the kickoff and look forward to participating in the many events that happen this

month thanks a lot (clapping.) >> i also and supervisor yee and supervisor peskin had to go so oil speak for the three of us i wanted to thank claudine those a lot of those events not just in the apa community but a lot of communities realize on the people that get the work done and make us donna look good so claudine thank you it is show important in city government we don't take for granted the strength of our diversity and continually embrace and celebrate it is a huge role in our city has since the beginning of our city and see it is very fitting to celebrate this great community and congratulations thank you

(clapping.) >> i want to especially introduce the chairs of our office of the small business commission we know we have no proper security at all because our sheriff is her vicki hennessey and hear department it extremely supportive of our organization. >> someone that grew up in san francisco the apa community you don't i can't imagine how it is like i'm thrilled to be honoring i want to the lafayette and jefferson elementary and a san francisco citizen's advisory council i wanted to commends you but recognize the law enforcement deputies in san francisco and the san francisco sheriff's department with having we have 36 percent of our sworn staff is re7d by the community and my privilege to work with

them them a shout out to the san francisco police department we have so many great apa officers and thank you for inviting me today (clapping.) >> thank you so much everyone that came here so it's a very, very big committee not just 1 or 16 people in 2004 to thirty almost 40 members strong that represents the ethnic backgrounds is a growing communities i'm fortunate to be working with at this time i want to say that in addition to the mayor's office support and i you all the city agencies we really, really appreciate our sponsors our celebration every year through a

civic celebration wouldn't have been possible our financial sponsors and again their we can't thank you enough we do what we can and so you're on our facebook and apa.org do that we'll - we really appreciate that because this business and community partnership is part of what our celebration is about and very important two years ago when we celebrated our tenth anniversary we thank those sponsors the 3 that worked u.s.s. in the last 10 years they were wells fargo and at&t and others this year every year we added new sponsors we're very, very

protecting shout out to say those sponsors key mr. eco where is he i call him mr. eco r key and learned more about him over seven hundred products i thought two or three this is not i was correct they have over seven hundred products and then we have very, very delighted to have total mr. to the (laughter) thanks thanks as a company this is the first time that to the will have a presence we're delighted the mayor's office has select san francisco to have their first showroom in the northern california area so we look forward to seeing the showroom across from at&t park

we look forward to visiting in the grand opening and thank you to the bank for coming in and other new sponsors is the gentleman from that new company and cal berth the american beverage association it really takes a it takes a village to work with us to make that work at this time i want to especially invite our heritage champion sponsor wells fargo who singles the year 2004 has been with us and continue to be the champions supporting asian pacific american heritage month with us is mark you're good friend and senior vice president of the northern area wells

fargo. >> (clapping). >> i.e., i was expecting you to introduce me as mr. wells fargo morning i'm mark senior vice president the marketing manager for wells fargo in the by a and a bay and as claudine said we'd be prouder to obtain one of the founder sponsors of asian pacific american heritage month wells fargo is involved in efforts like this we've been there from the beginning to see this and as a company rooted in history one hundred and 634 years we're very, very happy about this theme of 14rk9 the milestones it's been mentioned but the 230g9 anniversary of the soul sister and the 50 of the asian art and the one and 10 of the japantown i was thinking about this this is 200 years worthy of history so thanks to the 3 a organizations for the

milestones in the histories you've created will continue to create so congratulations (clapping.) apa is not just for apa it is for all americans it is not just for history that is written but history that continues to be wrimg written a couple weeks ago the board of supervisors passed same house, same call? for the filipino town even mission street the milestones there is milestones written we thank claude begin and e define and the volunteers of the asian pacific american heritage month and our co-chairs the whole village people lake this make this city happy asian pacific american heritage month and congratulations. >> thank you, mr. wells fargo. >> (laughter). thank you wells fargo >> so we really appreciate the

long-standing relationship not a one, if you're here we expect and how you have a good time connecting with the community last year, we had folks joining us we're returning thank you, mr. dean (clapping) kim so you wonder to continue our support please talk to kim so, please look through our website our facebook and press packet to see all the people that make that happen the cities are very, very important part of this asian pacific american heritage month celebration i see there are quite a few of the roechts today starting with the manila sister city paulette and richard (clapping) the sister city associations

representing and brother hocking city sills committee sister thank you being sponsors this year did i miss anybody oh, and e reign reilly thank you. >> (clapping.) so really takes a big effort this year in addition to our sponsors our community sponsors we also have other thirty some organizations community organizations joining our efforts as community partners i know think that everybody knows that in this room knows the asian pacific american heritage month most of the san francisco may or may not so it is our obviously to promote that awareness and thank you chris wong and thirty some

organizations working with us and thank you (clapping.) all very important so and all the commissioners that are here i know that like half the room are commissioners i'm not going to miss everyone i was at this time going to invite kim the chair the asian pacific american heritage month to join us but unfortunately raymond has to go out of town a note a few years ago the asian pacific american heritage month was a 4 for c-3 nonprofit was established to secure resources and to sustain celebration every year so the nonprofit is a very, very small board and all the members here i'd like them to join me e republican reilly, from at&t

scott are you missing so, yeah - valerie was under the weather so it is a very small organization but we work very, very close together and work with the heritage planning committee so we've decided this year since it is so presenters the support of businesses and the nonprofits we're out there fundraiserings day to day we decided every year we're going to show some appreciation for the businesses and have organizations that reached the 5 year milestone so we have 4 businesses and organizations today i'd like did represents to join us we have a

small token of appreciation and i'd like to ask our artist to join us this is what she created linda was one over our apa recipients last year and continues to be part of our family the first organization we want to show our appreciation the academy of arts i've been there for 6 representing the academy is rebecca delgado (clapping.) thank you and next one up oh, he's already here scott. >> all right.

(clapping.) and the third one is japantown merchants association unfortunately, our richard can't be with us today and last but not least we video parking corporation recommended by rose chung on the board (clapping.) thank you, thank you for your support, huh? >> so just a couple housekeeping i'm delighted to share we'll be at herbst theater

on monday at 5:30 for the ceremony within the announcement of the event the event every single seat was taken we actually, the theatres seats nine hundred and one thousand people on the list we want to ask you have whom you especially that have reserved seating arrive very early and give you a seat unfortunately, if your seat is not opted out by 415 we have a lot of people that need to come and see this so it is important and after the ceremony we'll environment everyone to join us we'll have a great reception and so we really hope you'll tell all the friends if

you have not registered be there earlier first come, first serve so we hope to pack the herbst theater during that half an hour and have a full house at city hall what is so special at city hall not only the great beverages but this is also the year we started to have community exhibits and public information tables we hope to create an opportunity for our community to get to know each other we hope that aside from coming for the guarantee food and wonderful drinks you'll invite the community tables with that, are there any any questions about our celebration? if not thank you so much for coming and the would the members of the asian pacific american heritage month we'll take a group picture so you, you will go through there and try to do

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>> good evening welcome to the wednesday, april 27, 2016, meeting of the san francisco board of appeals the presiding officer this evening commissioner honda he's joined by commissioner ann lazarus. >> commissioner wilson commissioner fung will be here momentumly and commissioner swig will be absent to my left is tom a city attorney and provide legal advice at the controls it did legal assistant gary and i'm cynthia goldstein the board's executive director. we have also joined by representatives from the we're joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before this board. sitting at the table in the front is scott sanchez the zoning administrator and also